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Justin Peters on Justification

LIVING · REFORMED BAPTIST / DISPENSATIONAL
READ IN A PRIMARY SOURCEAFFIRMS°
STANCE

Forensic — righteousness imputed, not infused

The righteousness of God is imputed, not infused as taught by the Roman Catholic church.
Statement of Faith, Justification ↗

THE POSITION

Strictly forensic and explicitly imputational. God judicially declares the elect righteous; their sins are imputed to Christ and His righteousness to them. The statement names the alternative it is rejecting — infusion as taught by Rome — and dismisses righteousness gained by repeatable penance or communion as no righteousness at all.

SCRIPTURE
2 CORINTHIANS 5:21 · BSB

21 God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.

18 OTHERS HOLD THIS

Jacobus ArminiusCalvinJonathan EdwardsThe Church of Eleven22 Statement of FaithJosh HowertonTim KellerSecond London Baptist ConfessionLutherJohn MacArthurPhilip MelanchthonGavin OrtlundJohn OwenJohn PiperR.C. SproulCharles Haddon SpurgeonWesleyWestminster ConfessionZwingli
Includes being made righteous, not only declaredAUGUSTINE · CHRYSOSTOM
By infused grace, mediated sacramentallyAQUINAS
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ABOUT THIS FIGURE

Discernment evangelist whose Clouds Without Water seminar — grown from his Th.M. thesis on Benny Hinn — is the best-known evangelical critique of the Word of Faith movement, and since 2026 senior pastor of a church plant outside Billings, Montana.

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"Justin Peters on Justification", Examined Doctrine, July 2026 edition, https://examineddoctrine.com/position/peters/justification (archived at https://examineddoctrine.com/editions/2026-07/position/peters/justification).

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